holden’s Reviews > Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir > Status Update

a rare second read for me. I love this memoir.

"If you harshly light every last corner of a house, the house will be uninhabitable. It's like that with your soul; if you light it up, shadows and darkness and all, people will become 'uninhabitable.' (...) As far as I'm concerned, the twentieth century, in its entirety, was a mistake."